Wednesday 8 October 2008

 

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Michael Henderson

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Business

These days, Vesco the fugitive fraudster would have had a top job on Wall Street

Can Comrade Hank find a way through this crisis?

Can Comrade Hank find a way through this crisis?

The US Treasury chief sees his interventionism as a case-by-case response to unprecedented events, says James Doran, but his critics see it as inconsistent, dangerous and ‘un-American’

Farewell to the bank that did Dull

Neil Collins on the financial crisis

The parable of The Golden Calf

The parable of The Golden Calf

Edie Lush attends the record-breaking Sotheby’s sale of Damien Hirst’s artworks, and wonders whether it is all a metaphor for the recent madness of financial markets

A catalogue of credit-crunch cant

Simon Nixon challenges the new conventional wisdom that all bankers are greedy, share traders are spivs, governments know best and capitalism is doomed

Arts

Playing games

Six Characters in Search of an Author
Gielgud

Riflemind
Trafalgar Studios

Confusing frolic

Confusing frolic

La Calisto
Royal Opera House

Tosca
Opera North, Leeds

Books

Stage-effects in earnest

Stage-effects in earnest

Churchill’s Wizards, by Nicholas Rankin

Back to simplicity

Back to simplicity

Mlinaric on Decorating, by Mirabel Cecil and David Mlinaric

Style & Travel

To the manner born

To the manner born

James Sherwood discovers a new meaning to the phrase ‘fashion house’

Home suite home

Home suite home

James Waldron investigates the new fashion for buying your own hotel room

The Spectator Parliamentarian Awards
The Spectator Billabong
In this week's issue

Clinton Democrats are to blame for the credit crunch

Our current financial turmoil is not the fault of greedy bankers, says Dennis Sewell. In fact, the banks were bullied into lowering their lending standards by left-wing idealists intent on equal opportunities at any cost

Dennis Sewell

The masters of the universe have turned to drink

The failure of the $700 billion bail-out has driven her former City-boy chums to despair, says Venetia Thompson. But they must rally soon to keep the market moving

Venetia Thompson

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